The 12th Annual Free Community Christmas dinner will be served on Tuesday, Dec. 25 at noon at the Montrose Square Community Room, sponsored by Endless Mountains Health Systems physicians, employees, volunteers of EMHS and the community. Everyone is invited. No reservations necessary.

Reservations are needed for the dinner-dance for New Year’s Eve at the Wysox Fire Hall. Northern Harmony II will furnish the music. For more information, please call Margaret Roof at 570-265-3479. If no answer, please leave your phone number and your call will be returned as soon as possible.

Christmas Gift Wrapping at Brewed Awakening, 19 Main Street in Wyalusing. Loaves and Fishes Ministries is offering the gift wrapping service as a fundraiser. Call or stop in to Brewed Awakening for details, 570-746-9935.

A Live Nativity - presented by the Rome Presbyterian, Rome United Methodist and North Orwell Union Church - will be presented on Saturday, Dec. 22. You may experience the Miracle that happened in Bethlehem between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. Parking will be in the Presbyterian Church lot with the live Nativity set up on the Rome Fire Co. grounds. Donations will be accepted and will benefit Grace Connection. You’ve been to Roman Holiday - now come to the Roman Census!

There will be a candlelight Christmas Eve-Eve service at the Hollenback United Methodist Church on Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

The Rushville Church will be holding its annual Christmas Eve Service on Dec. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Everyone welcome.

The Wysox Presbyterian Church will be holding a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service on Monday, Dec. 24 at 6

p.m. with communion by intinction. Rev. Tom Blackall will be in the pulpit.

Hometown Holiday Party, New Year’s Eve. Sponsored by the Greater Wyalusing Chamber of Commerce and held in the beautiful Tuscarora Wayne room of the chamber’s home on Main St. Hors d’oeuvres are served at 6:30 p.m. social half hour. Then a full course meal is served by “Catering the Wright Way.” The menu includes mozzarella chicken and/or roast beef, with all the fixings. There will be a large assortment of the best desserts from the best kitchens in town.The rest of the evening is filled with music, laughter and dancing led by DJ “All About Entertainment.” This is BYOB. Some set-ups will be provided. Watch for posters, with more detail. Tickets are $35 person, sold at the chamber office. Sales are brisk, so don’t be too late. These tickets would make a great gift for Christmas.

The Wysox Presbyterian Church Choir will be performing their Christmas Cantata, “Emmanuel - Celebrating Heaven’s Child,” on Sunday, Dec. 23 during their 11 a.m. worship service. Following the service, refreshments will be served.

Dinners

“Clip and Save:” December lunches at New Era U.M. Church at 11:30 a.m. Free will offering. Public welcome. Dec. 19, ham; Dec. 26, tomato soup.

T.A.C.O. Food Pantry holiday closing. The Towanda Area Christian Outreach Food Pantry will be closed Saturday, Dec. 22 through Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 for the Christmas/New Year’s holidays. The pantry will reopen Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. T.A.C.O. serves the Towanda, Northeast Bradford and Wyalusing school districts and is normally open Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 10 a.m. until noon. For additional information, call 570-265-4422.

Free Christmas Trees. There will be a few free Christmas trees available to clients of the T.A.C.O. Food Pantry, Rt. 6, Wysox on Friday, Dec. 21 between 10 a.m. and noon. Call ahead (570) 265-4422 to see if available. Bring your own rope if necessary.

Meeting Notices

S.O.S. Al-Anon — Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.

Compassionate Friends — of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 965-0901 (evenings) or 278- 1658 or e-mail tcfendlmts@hotmail.com.

Twelve Steps on the Way, a Christian recovery group, will meet at the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church on Mondays at 7 p.m. Use door in the rear of the church.

Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock: Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.

Diabetes Support Group - meeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.

TOPS PA #1134 — Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 965-2493 or 869-1834. Toll-free 1- 800-932-8677.

AA Meeting — Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.

MOPS — Mothers of Preschoolers meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda.

All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.

Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.

Addictions to Victory. Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.

Bradford County Cancer Support Group meets the 4th Wednesday of every month at Memorial Hospital in Conference Room A, beginning at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 1-888-227-5445, Option 3.

The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.

Caregivers’ Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda except for December, which is an informal luncheon. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a long term care facility welcome. The meeting dates for 2013 are as follows: Jan. 7, 22; Feb. 12, 26; March 12, 26; April 9, 23; May 14, 28; June 11, 25; July 9, 23; Aug. 13, 27; Sept. 10, 24; Oct. 8, 22; Nov. 12, 26; Dec. 10 only. This

group is held for forgotten heroes who are providing care for a family member or loved one. The invitation to attend and participate in these confidential informal gatherings is for family and caregivers. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570-746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265-6121. The next meeting will be Tuesday, Nov. 13.

Bradford/Sullivan Counties Intellectual Disabilities Program will hold a Quality Improvement Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Human Services large conference room. RSVP by Jan. 7 to Diane Bahr at 570-265-1760 or 1- 800-588-1828.

Anyone interested in managing or coaching a team in the RTL, please contact either Lisa Jayne at 570-869-2524 or jayne117@yahoo.com or Amy Bennett at 570-869-1123 with the division you are interested in by Jan. 1, 2013.

The Moosic Mets will be holding tryouts for players ages 8-17 at Electric City Baseball Academy, 733 Davis St., Scranton. Ages 8-11 will be held Sunday, Jan. 13 (6:30 to 8:30 p.m.) and Wednesday, Jan. 16 (6 to 8 p.m.). Ages 15-17 will be Jan. 19 (10 a.m. to 12 p.m.) and Jan. 23, (6 to 8 p.m.). Ages 12-14 will be held Jan. 20 (2-4 p.m.) and Jan. 24 (6 to 8 p.m.). Players need only attend one or two try-outs per age division. To register, visit www.moosicmets.net. Questions can be emailed to moosicmets@gmail.com.